QNAP Update - Virtualization Station 1.4.3901

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( 2015/08/12 )
[Improvements]
l Fixed security issues: updating Django ( CVE-2015-5144, CVE-2015-5143, CVE-2015-2317, CVE-2015-0221, CVE-2015-0220, CVE-2015-0219, CVE-2014-3730, CVE-2014-1418, CVE-2014-0483, CVE-2014-0482, CVE-2014-0481, CVE-2014-0480, CVE-2014-0474, CVE-2014-0473, CVE-2014-0472,CVE-2013-6044, CVE-2013-4315, CVE-2013-1443, CVE-2013-0306, CVE-2013-0305)

[Bug Fixes]
l Fixed bug - VM cloning process would stop at 98%.

[Limitations]
l USB 3.0 is only available for Windows 8 or above, CentOS 7 or above, Fedora 16 or above, RHEL 7 or above and Ubuntu 14.04 or above.
l This version is only available for QTS versions 4.1.x.

 

[RMerlin]

Do you have any first-hand experience with Virtualization Station? A few weeks ago, I tested it on a TS-253, as a potential way to host a mail server (Kerio Connect, to be more specific) for an all-in-one solution for future customers (right now, my two QNAP customers with an internal mail server have a separate Linux server to host Kerio Connect, with backups being pushed nightly to the QNAP over NFS)

It seemed to work well enough during the week I kept it running on my workbench, was wondering at how reliable their virtualization was in the long run, when hosting an actual network service that can generate a fair amount of I/O at times. Note that my typical deployment would be for 5-25 users.

 

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It's been fairly stable - have a Debian 8 VM running on a single core with 2GB allocated - 200GB image file...

Runs mysql, php5, wordpress, dokuwiki, imapd, and sendmail - not really that much different that running on metal...

It's KVM/QEMU at the core - and that's fairly mature.

 

[sfx2000]

And FWIW - I know that many of these apps could perhaps run native on QTS - most, if not all, are in the QTS app store - but keeping these local inside a VM makes a lot of sense - letting QTS do what it is best at - I can have the VM exposed to the outside world (and I do), and still keep it inside a sandbox, not impacting the NAS functionality.

Which technically, should make life much easier/better when the QTS 4.2 release finally ships sometime in the next 12 months or so...

 

[JoeJoe]

I have been running CentOS 7 on a TS-451 for a few months now, have it set to auto start. Works really well, no issues so far.

 

[kamina]

I've had a minecraft server running for my kid for a while, not one problem with it. Can't really comment on the performance for real usage though, personally I don't think I'd run anything mission critical on a VM on the NAS without a contingency plan... For me a mail server has a lot of really small file IO that is kind of incompatible with the drives these devices generally have once you get even a moderate amount of users.